From 149c83e136d342b53bc667b114df43ede22915f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roy Nieterau <roy_nieterau@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:57:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Raise PublishValidationError

---
 .../publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py b/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py
index 4590c53931..332c5aff02 100644
--- a/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py
+++ b/client/ayon_core/hosts/maya/plugins/publish/validate_current_renderlayer_renderable.py
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ import pyblish.api
 from maya import cmds
 from ayon_core.pipeline.publish import (
     context_plugin_should_run,
+    PublishValidationError,
     OptionalPyblishPluginMixin
 )
 
+
 class ValidateCurrentRenderLayerIsRenderable(pyblish.api.ContextPlugin,
                                              OptionalPyblishPluginMixin):
     """Validate if current render layer has a renderable camera
@@ -35,5 +37,9 @@ class ValidateCurrentRenderLayerIsRenderable(pyblish.api.ContextPlugin,
         layer = cmds.editRenderLayerGlobals(query=True, currentRenderLayer=True)
         cameras = cmds.ls(type="camera", long=True)
         renderable = any(c for c in cameras if cmds.getAttr(c + ".renderable"))
-        assert renderable, ("Current render layer '%s' has no renderable "
-                            "camera" % layer)
+        if not renderable:
+            raise PublishValidationError(
+                "Current render layer '{}' has no renderable camera".format(
+                    layer
+                )
+            )